OBSERVATIONS OF THE WEATHER. 95 



carbolic acid, and thirty parts of water, wash the dog thor- 

 oughly once a week, for four weeks. This will surely kill 

 them; and used in the same manner and for the same length 

 of time, will cure mange, and almost any skin disease that 

 dogs are heir to. 



CURE FOR CANKER OF THE EAR, EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL. 



If internal, clean out the ear by filling it with warm 

 suds, made with carbolic soap, knead the ear well with the 

 hands, then with a quil or small bellows, blow the ear full 

 of pulverized lodoform. If external, after cleaning the 

 ear with carbolic soap, sprinkle on the sore the same remedy 

 you used in the internal case. If there is not an absolute 

 cancer, this will effect a cure. 



Observations of the Weather, Through the Lunations of 

 the Moon. (Herschell.) 



"The nearer the time of the moon's change, first quarter, 

 full, and last quarter, are to midnight, the fairer will be the 

 weather for the following seven days; the range is from ten 

 at night to two next morning. The nearer midday, or noon, 

 the phases happen, the more foul, or wet, the weather may 

 be expected during the following seven days, the range for 

 this calculation is from ten in the forenoon, until two in 

 the afternoon. 



"These observations refer principally to the summer, 

 though the spring and autumn are nearly in the same ratio." 



SNOODING HOOKS. 



The following letter, signed Californian, and published 

 in the Forest and Stream February, 1885, covers the whole 

 ground, and as the writer of this book and Californian is 

 the same individual, it is here reproduced in full: 



